50% at onthly Botanical Report. (June 35 
April 5th. “Hedge roses are in leaf. The May-fly, and some species eleva havd 
fasued from their chrysalids. : ae 
~ Perch have retired to the smooth waters to spawn among ghewends) + t q 
April 28th. So powerful were the sun-beams in the middle of this care that sheep were | 
compelled to retire into the shade. 4 Aaa ” 
April 30th. Cock~chaffers fly in the evening. ees vekog 
There has been much rain in the Fae westward of us, The rivers are muddy, and ia” 
some places out of their banks, =" died yo 
Hampshire. 
MONTHLY BOTANICAL REPORT. 
*OUR numbers of the Boranist’s RePosrtory have deen published, since we lasé 
noticed this work: we shall devote the present es pee to a notice of the contente of 
these. 
Anneslea spinosa, so called by Dr. Roxburgh in honour of the Right Honourable George 
Annesley Viscount Valentia, who, we are here told, “ discovered this plant growing in the 
Gagra river in Oude, and aigu about Ghittagong.”” For discovered we suppose we are to under- 
stand saw, for specimens of this plant were brought by Sir George Staunton, from the provinces 
of Kinang, in China, upon his return from his embassy to this country, long before Lotd Va+ 
Jentia commenced his travels in India. We have not, however, the smallest; objection 6. 
the name; for, when the Magnates concern themselves at all about natural history, mote: 
especially when they undertake laborious travels, with a view of acquiting knowledge 
therein, we should be sorry to deprive them of an iota of their honorary rewards ; ‘and we 
are pleased to see the mest magnificent plants devoted to the record of a fame, so much more? 
meritorious, than that of shining in the annals of the Racing Calendar, or the petty in-. 
trigues of a borough election.” This is altogether a curious article about Nymphs and: 
Waiades, not more conspicuous for their beauty and elegance, than for their mildness 5° 
and about Anneslea, panther-like, “uniting the extremes of beauty and ferocity. We can- 
not suppose the author is slily insinuating any similarity, between his Lordship: and him’ 
plant, between Annesley and Annesiea, But it gives him an opportunity of introducing: 
something about the armour of vegetables, in which the different kinds are amusingly 
§umbled together in an unusual figure in rhetoric, an inverted bathos, from the almost 
imperceptible hair dows to the lacerated thorn” and about the browsing of camels, assess 
and goats’; 3 and about hoping to see the magnificent foliage of Amnneslea, ‘¢ mantling our 
ponds.” The reasoning, however, on which our author grounds his hopes of our being ables 
to natttalize a tropical production to ourclimate, is not very convincing. ** Have we not,’* 
he exultingly exclaims, ‘* already taught the Thea, the Camellia, the Takio, the Mou 
tan, the Yulan, to resist our winters.” Now ic unfortunately happens chat we have nog 
taught one of these plants to bear cold a jot better than they did ages ago, in the imperia} 
gardens at Pekin, We have indeed had the goad sense to discover, that, being natives of 
climes equally rigid with our own, it was not necessary to confine them to the stove. ” 
We have been so entertained withthis article, that we could not withstand the temptation: 
of gmusing our readers wich parts of it; but we must not forget to say something serious of. 
this very curious Kind of water-lily, which has flowered st White Knight's, the seat of the 
Marquis of Blandford. The flowers according to the figure are but small, in proportion to 
the immense size of the foliage, sometimes six or eight feet in circumference, the petals- 
are blue, the calyx green on the outside, and red within. 
Eugenia seylanica 5 from Boyton, the seat of A. I. Lambert, esq. It is come the na» 
tural order of myrti. A curious observation is here made concerning the germen, which 
contains sixteen ovula, though the fruit admits of only one seed coming to perfection. iy 
Schinus dentata 5. anative of Owhyhee, and sufficiently hardy to thrive well in a shel- 
tered situation in the open ground, and even to produce ripe seeds in favourable seasons,s 
if trained against a wall. 
Jussiewa exaltata; The cattu calambu of the hortus malabaricus, v. 2, p. 97, 150, a new 
species introduced from the East Indies by Dr. Roxburgh, and communicated to the vet 
by Mr. Lambert, from his seat at Boyton. 
Leptospermum scoparium, native of New Zealand, and one of the most beautiful of the 
natural order of the myrti, from that quarter, from the number and duration of its flowers. 
It was found also by Captain Cook tobe very useful, and is the shrub described by bing in 
his second voyage, under the name of the tea-plant. 4 
Ardisia elegans; native of Pulo-Pinang, where it grows in moist situations, and by the: 
sides of rivulets: introduced by Mr. Evans, of Stepney, in whose stove it attained the: 
height of nearly five feet. This species appears not to have been before described. 
Lotus australis. A plant we have before mentioned from the Botanical Magazine. 9... ie 
Hay Barler 
